Little Known Aspects of Veneration of the Old Testament Sabbath in Medieval Ethiopia
The Church of Ethiopia did observe both the Old Testament or the Jewish Sabbath and its Christian counterpart. This practice became one of the distinctive features of the Ethiopian Christianity. In various periods of its history the problem of veneration of the Jewish Sabbath provoked a lasting cont...
Publicado en: | Scrinium |
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Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Brill
2017
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Scrinium
Año: 2017, Volumen: 13, Número: 1, Páginas: 154-158 |
Clasificaciones IxTheo: | CG Cristianismo y política HB Antiguo Testamento KAF Baja Edad Media KAH Edad Moderna KBL Oriente Medio KDF Iglesia ortodoxa |
Otras palabras clave: | B
Ethiopian Church
medieval Ethiopian Kingdom
Old Testament / Jewish Sabbath
veneration of Saturday and Sunday
King Zär’a Ya‘ǝqob
King Claudius
Ethiopian Royal chronicles
King Täklä Giyorgis I
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Sumario: | The Church of Ethiopia did observe both the Old Testament or the Jewish Sabbath and its Christian counterpart. This practice became one of the distinctive features of the Ethiopian Christianity. In various periods of its history the problem of veneration of the Jewish Sabbath provoked a lasting controversy among the country’s clergy. It was under the reign of the King Zär’a Ya‘ǝqob (1434-1468) that the observance of both Sabbaths became the officially accepted by the Ethiopian Church and the State. However, some evidences of this custom can be traced for many centuries before. Following the Confession of faith of the King Claudius (1540-1559), the priority was given to the celebration of Sunday. The author of the article was fortunate to discover several cases of the preferential veneration of Sunday during a military campaign of 1781, described in the chronicle of the King Täklä Giyorgis I.
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ISSN: | 1817-7565 |
Obras secundarias: | In: Scrinium
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00131p13 |